At least 29 people had been shot this weekend in Chicago as of Sunday afternoon, and five of them had been killed.
CHICAGO (CBS) — At least 29 people had been shot this weekend in Chicago as of Sunday afternoon, and five of them had been killed. Police said one man, Jason Nightengale, was behind three of the homicides and three non-fatal shootings in Chicago, as well as a fourth non-fatal shooting just outside the city limits in Evanston – as he went on an hours-long shooting spree that spanned the city on Saturday. Nightengale shot and killed his first victim in the garage at the Regents Park building, at 5035 S. East End Ave. in the East Hyde Park-Kenwood neighborhood, around 1:50 p.m. Saturday, police Supt. David Brown said. He said Nightengale entered a garage and shot a 30-year-old man dead in his car, and the University of Chicago confirmed that the victim was a student there. The university Sunday identified the man as Yiran Fan, a Ph.D. student in a joint program of the Booth School of Business and the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. Fan came from China to study in the United States. Fan was in the fourth year of his program and hoped to propose his dissertation later this year. Afterward, Brown said, Nightengale went to another building on the next block north – The Barclay condominium complex at 4940 S. East End Ave. Nightengale entered the vestibule of the building, took out a gun, and began firing shots – striking two women. One of the women, who was working as a security guard at the desk for the building, was killed in the shooting, Brown said. The other, a 77-year-old woman who was retrieving her mail, was shot in the head and was left in critical condition, Brown said. At 2:45 p.m., Nightingale went into a building also in the 5000 block of South East End Avenue and took the elevator to the 19th floor, Brown said. A relative of Nightengale’s had apparently once lived in the building. Nightengale found a man he knew on the 19th floor and pulled a gun on him, and pushed the man into his own apartment, Brown said. He made the man give up the keys to his vehicle and then returned downstairs took off in the vehicle – a red Toyota, Brown said. That man was not shot or injured. At 3 p.m., Nightengale made his way several miles to the south and west to the 9300 block of South Halsted Street in the Brainerd neighborhood, Brown said. He announced a robbery in a store on the block and fired shots, striking a 20-year-old man in the head, Brown said. That man was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Nightengale also shot an 81-year-old woman in the back and neck in the same store, Brown said. She was left in critical condition, Brown said. At 4 p.m., Nightengale found his way 1.25 miles south to the 10300 block of South Halsted Street in the Fernwood neighborhood, where a 15-year-old girl was in the back seat of a car being driven by her mother, Brown said.
